Infrastructure as Code Matures
Kubernetes 1.18 & GitOps - Infrastructure as Code Matures As the world shifted to remote work in 2020, the importance of declarative, version-controlled infrastructure became more apparent than ever. Kubernetes 1.18 brought stability improvements and features that made GitOps not just possible, but the preferred way to manage cloud-native applications. The idea that infrastructure and application deployments should be driven entirely by Git commits wasn't new, but 2020 made it essential. When teams couldn't walk over to the operations desk to troubleshoot a deployment, having every change tracked and reversible became critical. yaml # GitOps repository structure infrastructure/ ├ ── environments/ │ ├ ── development/ │ │ ├ ── namespace.yaml │ │ ├ ── applications/ │ │ └── monitoring/ │ ├ ── staging/ │ └── production/ ├ ── applications/ │ ...